With Time By The Sea

$60.00–$110.00

There is a country that no one ever leaves … A country in which space and time pass each other like strangers, animals are smarter than humans and common sense and logic sleep quietly under a rock on the other side of the sea of dreams. We all are made of fairy tales, scary, funny, and still believe in miracles!
They are like a scar on our shoulder, like a story we once read and never forgot, like a precious moment at sunset, which will never be erased from our memory. They resemble beloved hands, stretched out eagerly to embrace us.

There’s a place where magic is nothing unusual … The Palace in Balchik! It is located in Europe, in a small Balkan country, called Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast. A unique place, created by a unique woman. A (Romanian) Queen of the 19th century who as if with a magic wand had mixed up the East and the West in her blood, together with the belief that religions of all times could be reconciled in the Baha’i’s teachings, who saturated the buildings of that palace residence with love and a longing for beauty. Fabulous, well kept large garden on the beach full of beauty and symbols.

This magical beauty seized me and I painted these watercolours that preceded another great emotion and beauty in my life. Fascinated, I moved into a studio overlooking the sea near the palace (now made public) and just started painting. So time invited me to go to the sea with it. Here this summer, winter, and fall are sealed. Spring, however, abandoned me. It went to another woman. Anyway … this is what time is all about with its inscrutable providence.